Girls volleyball

The OIA varsity girls volleyball regular season ended Wednesday night with six matches in the East. Playoffs begin next Wednesday with defending champion Mililani the No. 1 seed out of the West while undefeated Moanalua gets the No. 1 seed from the East in the Red playoffs. Na Menehune is searching for their first OIA Red championship since 2007. Radford, the No. 1 seed out of the West, is the defending OIA White champion while Kalaheo, which beat Division I […]

A key match to determine the final OIA Red playoff berths on Monday ended with a Kaiser sweep of Farrington. The Cougars (5-5) picked up their second win against a Division I opponent, knocking off the Governors 25-22, 25-17 on Farrington’s senior night. Senior Karley DeMello had a game-high 10 kills and middle Teuila Gardner came up big in the second set with five of her six kills. Gardner hit .600 in the match while DeMello ended at .444. Cougars […]

Sometimes, it takes absolute perfection to knock off the No. 1 team in the state. ‘Iolani probably understands this. The fourth-ranked Raiders were outstanding defensively and still fell at Kamehameha’s house, 25-21, 25-23 on Tuesday night. Kamehameha hit .245. ‘Iolani finished at .216. The Raiders had just one hitting error and one service error in the second set, and still couldn’t topple the mighty Warriors.  Punahou will visit Kamehameha on Saturday in a high noon showdown as the home-and-away first […]

(Here’s the extended version of this morning’s feature story on Moanalua senior volleyball player Lia Gaogao.) Change is good, even if it takes a lot of work. That’s what Silerolia “Lia” Gaogao knows well enough. She was part of a promising group of volleyball standouts at Maryknoll four years ago, but when the school opted to go in another direction, talent dispersed across the island. Gaogao and her heavy-ball rockets wound up at Moanalua with coach Tommy Lake, where she […]